xvii, 222 pages ; 22 cm

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Introduction: Personal encounter with God -- 1. Christ, Sacrament of God -- 1. Humility in search of the Sacrament of God -- 1. Sacrament in pagan religion -- 2. Israel as sacrament of God -- 2. Christ the primordial sacrament -- 1. Encounter with the earthly Christ as sacrament of the encounter with God -- 2. The actions of Jesus' life as manifestations of divine love for man and human love for God: bestowal of grace and religious worship -- 3. Jesus' humiliation in the service of God and his heavenly exaltation: the redemptive mystery of Christ -- 4. The mystery of Christ's love for the Father as the foundation of his unfailing gift of grace -- 3. The necessity for the extension to earth of the glorified Christ, the primordial sacrament -- 1. Our need to encounter the Christ of heaven -- 2. The real possibility of this encounter from Christ's side -- 3. The necessity for earthly sacraments so that the encounter between the glorified Christ and men on earth might take place in terms of mutual human availability -- 2. The Church, sacrament of the risen Christ -- 1. The mystery of the church, the earthly "Body of the Lord" -- 2. The Sacraments as Ecclesial Celebration in mystery of the mysteries of Christ's life -- 3. Implications of the ecclesial character of sacramental action -- 1. The twofold liturgical structure of the sacraments: "sacrament and Word" -- 2. The ecclesial administration of the Sacraments -- 3. The intention of the recipient -- 4. The condition upon which the value of the sacraments -- 4. The sacraments in their fullness: the fruitful sacrament -- 5. Encounter with Christ in the church as sacrament of the encounter with God: the effect s of a sacrament -- 1. The ecclesial effect as sacrament of the grace effect -- 2. The grace effect of the sacraments: sacramental grace as the encounter with God -- 6. Sacramental encounters with Christ: culminating moments in the ecclesial character of Christian life -- 7. The mystical quality of the sacraments

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